Sanctity And Motherhood

Author : Anneke Mulder-Bakker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134819492

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Sanctity and Motherhood by Anneke Mulder-Bakker Pdf

Increasingly, recent scholarship has focused on those married women and mothers in the Middle Ages who achieved holiness. The Merovingian Waldetrudis and Rictrudis; Ida, mother of the crusader king Godfrey of Bouillon; Elisabeth of Hungary and Bridget of Sweden are among them. Unlike Mary and her mother, Saint Anne (mother saints, whose sanctity was based on motherhood) these female parents were honored despite rather than because of their children. They were holy mothers, whose status as spouses and mothers gave them a public voice and opened for them the road to sanctification. They successfully combined marriage and motherhood with a religious life and functioned as holy women in their community. Despite increasing respect, tension between the roles of saint and wife persisted. Saintly women were not expected to be happily married: the ancient prejudice against sexual passion and physical ease mitigated the enjoyment of married life.The book's original essays focus on Northern Europe, where the cult of Saint Anne reached its climax around 1500. It does not explore Church doctrine and theology, as other studies do, but examines the religious experience of historical holy mothers and saints and how these women were perceived by their communities and their biographers.

Author : Anneke Mulder-Bakker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134819423

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Sanctity and Motherhood by Anneke Mulder-Bakker Pdf

Increasingly, recent scholarship has focused on those married women and mothers in the Middle Ages who achieved holiness. The Merovingian Waldetrudis and Rictrudis; Ida, mother of the crusader king Godfrey of Bouillon; Elisabeth of Hungary and Bridget of Sweden are among them. Unlike Mary and her mother, Saint Anne (mother saints, whose sanctity was based on motherhood) these female parents were honored despite rather than because of their children. They were holy mothers, whose status as spouses and mothers gave them a public voice and opened for them the road to sanctification. They successfully combined marriage and motherhood with a religious life and functioned as holy women in their community. Despite increasing respect, tension between the roles of saint and wife persisted. Saintly women were not expected to be happily married: the ancient prejudice against sexual passion and physical ease mitigated the enjoyment of married life.The book's original essays focus on Northern Europe, where the cult of Saint Anne reached its climax around 1500. It does not explore Church doctrine and theology, as other studies do, but examines the religious experience of historical holy mothers and saints and how these women were perceived by their communities and their biographers.

Author : Mary Dunn
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823267224

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The Cruelest of All Mothers by Mary Dunn Pdf

In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son, Claude, against the wishes of her family and her own misgivings. Marie concluded, “God was dearer to me than all that. Leaving him therefore in His hands, I bid adieu to him joyfully.” Claude organized a band of schoolboys to storm the convent, begging for his mother’s return. Eight years later, Marie made her way to Quebec, where over the course of the next thirty-three years she opened the first school for Native American girls, translated catechisms into indigenous languages, and served some eighteen years as superior of the first Ursuline convent in the New World. She would also maintain, over this same period, an extensive and intimate correspondence with the son she had abandoned to serve God. The Cruelest of All Mothers is, fundamentally, an explanation of Marie de l’Incarnation’s decision to abandon Claude for religious life. Complicating Marie’s own explication of the abandonment as a sacrifice carried out in imitation of Christ and in submission to God’s will, the book situates the event against the background of early modern French family life, the marginalization of motherhood in the Christian tradition, and seventeenth-century French Catholic spirituality. Deeply grounded in a set of rich primary sources, The Cruelest of All Mothers offers a rich and complex analysis of the abandonment.

Author : Islay Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Christian education of children
ISBN : OXFORD:590185764

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The sanctity of home by Islay Burns Pdf

Author : Onaolapo Gabriel Olusola
Publisher : Partridge Africa
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781482824667

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Motherhood by Onaolapo Gabriel Olusola Pdf

The value of motherhood is being eroded and is being threatened today by so many factors that urgent steps need to be taken to preserve the dignity of our mothers before the moths of corruption eat the remaining fabric of motherhood and make the situation hopeless. If our society will be good, we need good mothers. If our society will be kind, we need kind mothers. If our society will be morally upright, we need morally upright mothers. If our society will retain its values, we need mothers of value. If our society will be prosperous, we need prosperous mothers. If our society will experience the reign of righteousness, we need righteous mothers. If our society will be great, we need great-minded mothers.

Author : Susan Conroy
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781612782003

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Mother Teresa's Lessons of Love and Secrets of Sanctity by Susan Conroy Pdf

An inside view of Mother Teresa's heroic love at work A moving first-hand account of Mother Teresa and her work, written by someone who worked by her side. As an idealistic young volunteer, author Susan Conroy spent a summer serving in one of Mother Teresa's orphanages and in the Home for the Dying. "In a city where I found hell on earth," she says, "I also found each day a deep sense of peace and incredible happiness." It was an experience that changed her life forever. She learned why Mother Teresa had found real joy in working with the poorest of the poor. Along the way, she took striking photographs that have never been seen before now - photographs that show Mother Teresa at her everyday best. This is an account you won't soon forget, told with simple and loving directness by an eyewitness.

Author : Helena Ragone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000313659

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Surrogate Motherhood by Helena Ragone Pdf

Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart is a compelling account written with analytical clarity and remarkable compassion. Helena Ragoné has given long overdue humanity and voice to the actual participants in the surrogate motherhood experience—a heretofore inaccessible population—and the results are fascinating. Anyone interested in fertility, parenting, reproduction, and kinship, or anyone interested in contemporary culture will want to read this book.

Author : Clarissa W. Atkinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501740893

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The Oldest Vocation by Clarissa W. Atkinson Pdf

According to an old story, a woman concealed her sex and ruled as pope for a few years in the ninth century. Pope Joan was not betrayed by a lover or discovered by an enemy; her downfall came when she went into labor during a papal procession through the streets of Rome. From the myth of Joan to the experiences of saints, nuns, and ordinary women, The Oldest Vocation brings to life both the richness and the troubling contradictions of Christian motherhood in medieval Europe. After tracing the roots of medieval ideologies of motherhood in early Christianity, Clarissa W. Atkinson reconstructs the physiological assumptions underlying medieval notions about women's bodies and reproduction; inherited from Greek science and popularized through the practice of midwifery, these assumptions helped shape common beliefs about what mothers were. She then describes the development of "spiritual motherhood" both as a concept emerging out of monastic ideologies in the early Middle Ages and as a reality in the lives of certain remarkable women. Atkinson explores the theological dimensions of medieval motherhood by discussing the cult of the Virgin Mary in twelfth-century art, story, and religious expression. She also offers a fascinating new perspective on the women saints of the later Middle Ages, many of whom were mothers; their lives and cults forged new relationships between maternity and holiness. The Oldest Vocation concludes where most histories of motherhood begin—in early modern Europe, when the family was institutionalized as a center of religious and social organization. Anyone interested in the status of motherhood, or in women's history, the cultural history of the Middle Ages, or the history of religion will want to read this book.

Author : Beth Holmgren
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810119307

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The Russian Memoir by Beth Holmgren Pdf

The essays in this volume seek to appreciate the literary construction of the memoir, with its dual agendas of individualized expression and reliable reportage, and explore its functions as interpretive history, social modelling, and political expression in Russian culture. The memoirs under scrutiny range widely, including those of the private person (Princess Natalia Dolgorukaia), sophisticated high culture writers (Nikolai Zabolotskii, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky), cultural critics and facilitators (Lidiia Ginzburg, Avdot'ia Panaeva), political dissidents (Evgeniia Ginzburg, Elena Bonner), and popular artists (filmmaker Elidar Riazanov). It examines each memoir for its aesthetic and rhetorical features as well as its cultural circumstances. In mapping the memoir's social and historical significance, the essays consider a wide range of influences and issues, including the specific impact of the author's class, gender, ideology, and life experience on his/her witnessing of Russian culture and society.

Author : Janelle Hanchett
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316549431

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I'm Just Happy to Be Here by Janelle Hanchett Pdf

"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood." -- POPSUGAR "By turns painful and funny... A searingly candid memoir." -- Kirkus "Far from your cookie-cutter story of addiction . . . [I'm Just Happy to Be Here] describes Hanchett's journey to recovery and sobriety in imperfect and unconventional ways." -- Bustle In this unflinching and wickedly funny memoir, Janelle Hanchett tells the story of finding her way home. And then, actually staying there. Drawing us into the wild, heartbreaking mind of the addict, Hanchett carries us from motherhood at 21 with a man she'd known three months to cubicles and whiskey-laden domesticity, from judging meth addicts in rehab to therapists who "seem to pull diagnoses out of large, expensive hats." With warmth, wit, and searing B.S. detectors turned mostly toward herself, Hanchett invites us to laugh when we probably shouldn't and to rejoice at the unconventional redemption she finds in desperation and in a misfit mentor who forces her to see the truth of herself. A story of ego and forced humility, of fierce honesty and jagged love, of the kind of failure that forces us to re-create our lives, Hanchett writes with rare candor, scorching the "sanctity of motherhood," and leaving beauty in the ashes.

Author : Cornelia Möser,Jennifer Ramme,Judit Takács
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030813413

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Paradoxical Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe by Cornelia Möser,Jennifer Ramme,Judit Takács Pdf

How did far-right, hateful and anti-democratic ideologies become so successful in many societies in Europe? This volume analyses the paradoxical roles sexual politics have played in this process and reveals that the incoherence and untruthfulness in right-wing populist, ultraconservative and far-right rhetorics of fear are not necessarily signs of weakness. Instead, the authors show how the far right can profit from its own incoherence by generating fear and creating discourses of crisis for which they are ready to offer simple solutions. In studies on Poland, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Austria, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Portugal, France, Sweden and Russia, the ways far-right ideologies travel and take root are analysed from a multi-disciplinary perspective, including feminist and LGBTQI reactions. Understanding how hateful and antidemocratic ideologies enter the very centre of European societies is a necessary premise for developing successful counterstrategies.

Author : Sharon Hines Smith
Publisher : Garland Science
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000526516

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African American Daughters and Elderly Mothers by Sharon Hines Smith Pdf

First published in 1998. The death of an elderly person— and its impact on an adult child—is considered so "normal" that it has attracted scant attention. This study attempts to fill that gap by examining a specific slice of a specific ethnic group and looking at the meaning of elderly mothers’ deaths for their adult, African American daughters— from the perspective of those daughters.

Author : J. Wyn Evans,Jonathan M. Wooding
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843833220

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St David of Wales by J. Wyn Evans,Jonathan M. Wooding Pdf

The cult of St David has been an enduring symbol of Welsh identity across more than a millennium. This volume traces the evidence for the cult of St David through archaeological, historical, hagiographical, liturgical, and toponymic evidence.

Author : John Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351910064

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Pope Innocent III and his World by John Moore Pdf

The year 1998 was the 800th anniversary of the election of Lotario dei Conti di Segni as Pope. At 37, he was one of the youngest men ever to hold that office, and he was to become one of the most important popes in the entire history of Christianity. Together with Gregory VII, he was one of the two most important popes of the Middle Ages. In his efforts to promote Christianity and defend it from its enemies, Innocent played a role in the history of almost every part of Europe and its environs. He initiated both the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, that ended up sacking the Greek Christian city of Constantinople, and the Albigensian Crusade, that devastated major parts of Southern France and led to its submission to the French crown. He promoted the crusades that accomplished the conquest and conversion of the pagans of the south Baltic coast. These papers are taken from the interdisciplinary conference, Pope Innocent III and his World, held in May 1997 at the Hofstra University Cultural Center, New York.

Author : Amy Singleton Adams,Vera Shevzov
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781609092351

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Framing Mary by Amy Singleton Adams,Vera Shevzov Pdf

Despite the continued fascination with the Virgin Mary in modern and contemporary times, very little of the resulting scholarship on this topic extends to Russia. Russia's Mary, however, who is virtually unknown in the West, has long played a formative role in Russian society and culture. Framing Mary introduces readers to the cultural life of Mary from the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet era. It examines a broad spectrum of engagements among a variety of people—pilgrims and poets, clergy and laity, politicians and political activists—and the woman they knew as the Bogoroditsa. In this collection of well-integrated and illuminating essays, leading scholars of imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia trace Mary's irrepressible pull and inexhaustible promise from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Focusing in particular on the ways in which both visual and narrative images of Mary frame perceptions of Russian and Soviet space and inform discourse about women and motherhood, these essays explore Mary's rich and complex role in Russia's religion, philosophy, history, politics, literature, and art. Framing Mary will appeal to Russian studies scholars, historians, and general readers interested in religion and Russian culture.